Mom's Classic Cupcakes

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   Preheat oven to 350F.

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   Beat thoroughly eggs, oil, and sugar, until light and bubbly.

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   *.

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   In a seperate bowl, sift flour and baking powder.

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   Add to the eggs, alternating with the milk.

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   Stir only until texture is smooth, as little as possible.

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   If you wish, this is the time to add chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, or whatever.

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   Pour into paper-lined muffin pan.

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   Bake 20-25 minutes, until cupcakes are golden & a toothpick comes out clean.

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    Cool before frosting.

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    Icing:.

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    Whip the icing sugar, butter, vanilla & add only enough milk for the icing to be smooth.

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    Optional:.

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    In cupcake batter, you can add spices, flavourings, your can include chocolate chips and/or raisins and/or cocoa and/or coconut, etc.

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    etc.

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    To the icing, you can add cocoa and/or mint, almond, orange extracts (or any other kind) to taste.

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    You can also add food colouring to the vanilla icing.

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    Dip the top of frosted cupcakes into shaved chocolate, sprinkles, roasted coconut, candy, spices etc.

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    etc.

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    Let your kids go wild!

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    *The more you beat the eggs & sugar mix, the fluffier the cake will be.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.

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